Provision of Library Stock to East Midlands & Mid Anglia Library Consortium

Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) ‘the Council’ is running an open tender process on
behalf of the East Midlands and Mid Anglia Libraries Consortium (EMMA) to establish a new
framework agreement for the supply of Library stock materials.

The East Midlands and Mid Anglia Libraries Consortium consists of:
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Creative Learning Services (CLS), part of Leicestershire County Council
• Derby City Council
• Derbyshire County Council
• Inspire; Culture Learning & Libraries (Midlands) (known as “Inspire”) – Nottinghamshire County Council’s library service operating as a charitable organisation
• Inspire’s Education Library Service
• Leicestershire County Council, including supply to HMP Gartree.
• Leicester City Council
• Nottingham City Council, (including supply to Nottingham Prison Service)
• Peterborough City Council
• Rutland County Council District Council (including supply to Rutland Prison Service)
(‘Customer’ in the context of this specification refers to consortium member or member(s)).

The framework agreement will be split into 2 lots
Lot 1. Adult fiction, non-fiction books and standing orders
Lot 2. Children’s and young adult fiction and non-fiction books, books for education library services; including non-fiction to support Foundation, KS1 and KS2 and some provision for KS3 and KS4
The Supplier must be able to offer a wide range and breadth of stock across all lot(s).

A single provider is to be awarded for each lot.

This new framework agreement will replace the current framework ‘Provision of Library
Stock to East Midlands & Mid Anglia Library (EMMAC) consortium’ reference DN433696
which will end on the 31st of March 2024.

The term of the framework agreement will be for 4 years.

To allow time for the call-off contracts and order forms to be completed and approved, there
will be a period of mobilisation between the Framework Agreement Commencement Date
and the Service Commencement Date. The Framework Agreement will commence from the
1st of February 2024 and the Service will commence from the 1st of April 2024.

This is a new competitive procurement process using an open procedure conducted in
accordance with the Public Procurement 2015 Regulations and advertised in the Find a
Tender Service Find high value contracts in the public sector GOV.UK (www.gov.uk ).
Please read all the tender documents. If you have any questions, please submit them through
the procurement portal using the messaging facility.

To register your interest in this tender and to view the tender documents, the tender is
published on https://www.eastmidstenders.org/
Reference DN684871

The closing date for all tenders is the 17th of October 2023

Please note that a standstill period of 10 days will commence from the notification of the
contract award.